Knowing we would be in the area a day earlier than our scheduled arrival at Kerri’s Aunt’s place, Kerri reserved a spot at her childhood favorite place to camp in California; Patrick’s Point State Park. I’m usually not the biggest fan of State Parks, but will make an exception for...
Arriving in the Shasta area, Kerri had planned for us to explore a particular area that she found some interesting things on her map. Since we had a few days before the work week began we were without the constraints of needing a cell signal. That meant exploring a ton...
We left Lassen National Forest after two weeks of roaming around the back roads surrounding the national park. We chose to spend one more week up in the mountains to avoid the heat of the valley. It was the Shasta area that we wanted to see next, so Northward we...
The primary reason we came to this part of California was to see the wonder that is Lassen Volcanic National Park. Though we had distracted ourselves with other adventures for two weeks, we finally got into the park-proper at the very end of our stay in the area. Sadly, the...
With plans to finally go into Lassen Volcanic National Park the following weekend, we backtracked a half hour’s drive to position ourselves not far out of the North entrance. There are so many forest roads all over the place up here, all mostly in fantastic condition too, we would have...
Every time I speak with someone about going to Lassen they bring up Burney Falls and how it is a “must see”. With all the references I made sure to include it on the map of destinations that I “must see” while exploring California. Initially, Kerri and I thought we...
A peaceful night at Hay Meadows is where we left off in the story, although I did leave out the hordes of mosquitoes due to the marshy landscape just a few feet out our door. Kerri and I are just beginning to accept that it is the season for those...
I’ve always dreamed of spending a chunk of my life off-asphalt – just driving for days on the dirt and gravel forest roads that sprinkle the West. I’ve always shy’d away from it though, some times due to the hit in my mileage and others from the safety concerns. He...
After all of Big Blue’s spa week, we finally got on the move again. Although it had only been just over a week of visiting both families, it felt like an eternity of stationary life. Northbound was our direction, although we would end up tossing in a whole lot of...
